Job Opportunities at Tezza Business Solutions Ltd

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• The Data Protection Lead will ensure that the bank processes the personal data of its staff, customers, providers or any other individuals in compliance with the applicable data protection rules.

The role holder is responsible for the following:

• Maintaining data protection policies and procedures.
• Ensure the company’s policy is in accordance with Data Regulations and codes of practice
• Conducting training and awareness sessions to all Staff on Data Privacy requirements and obligations of the Group
• Ensuring Data Privacy Impact Assessments are undertaken in line with data privacy laws.
• Driving implementation of essential elements of the DPA, such as the principles of data processing, data subjects’ rights, data protection by design and by default, records of processing activities, security of processing, and notification and communication of data breaches.
• Overseeing the maintenance of records required to demonstrate data protection compliance.
• Act as the primary point of contact within the organization for members of staff, regulators, and any relevant public bodies on issues related to data protection
• Evaluate the existing data protection framework and identify areas of non or partial compliance and rectify any issues

 Ideal Job Specifications
 Academic:

• A Bachelor’s degree in ICT, Law, Business Administration or any other Business-related degree
• Hold at least one Data Protection and/or Privacy certification

Desired work experience:

• Minimum 7 years’ experience within ICT, legal, audit and/or risk function handling company data.
• Well-developed, professional interpersonal skills; ability to interact effectively with people at all levels.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with the appropriate discretion and ethics.
• Experience in managing data incidents and breaches.
• Good understanding of data processing operations, including information systems, data security and data protection needs of an institution

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• This role will drive management of the Master Data strategy that brings together the fundamental business data building blocks that are shared across multiple business transactions, e.g. T-24 captures and generates data becomes a I MDM asset', that is used in other systems such as customer management system (CRM), SAP -Bl regulatory reporting. This role owns and delivers on the Master Data & Data Quality Management strategy and reports into the Chief Data Officer, CDO.
• The Data Quality Lead is a senior management role tasked with providing leadership and overseeing the following administrative and operational functions within the data management office and group:
• Master Data Management: this function is responsible for Master data management (MDM), a process and technology-enabled discipline in which business and IT work together to ensure the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship, semantic consistency and accountability of the enterprise's official shared master data assets.
• Data Quality Management: is the capability to appropriately design data quality requirements across the business data domains, diagnose data quality issues, correct them and monitor the solution effectiveness.
• At its core, the role involves supporting the CDO and other team leaders in implementing the Enterprise Data Management Framework in regards to Master Data & Data Quality Strategies, drive strategic performance in order to achieve strategic results that is, Data is seen as a Strategic Asset and creates sustainable stakeholder value.

Academic:

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Finance & Banking MIS, or Information Management, operations management
• Masters or diploma in data management/data science, will be an added advantage

Professional:

• Hands on experience in Database Development and scripting, with expert level skills in writing SQL queries.
• Hands on experience in developing ETL packages using Oracle DI, SQL Server Integration Services, SAP Data Services
• Deep understanding of industry standard formats and protocols (XML/XPath/XQuery and JSON)
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and reporting skills
• A good knowledge of the information requirements and standard reporting within Financial Services industry

Desired work experience:

• Minimum 8 years' experience in IT systems development within a large, digitized organization designing, implementing and managing mission critical systems, with at least 5 of those years within BI development and/or support.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Lead in solution design activities.
• Create and Review Technical Architecture Documents for system changes and new systems and solutions.
• Develop, implement and guard architecture principles and development standards. 
• Identify and recommend Security Standards and minimum-security requirements and their incorporation in delivered solutions/systems.
• Lead in elicitation and documentation of non-functional requirements.
• Having understood the banks environment, provide and recommend Design Patterns and guide their application / use in delivering integration solutions in the bank. 
• Review the existing integration framework for feasibility of re-using it for future solutions. Review the existing integrations landscape and provide/develop plans for closure of any new or existing/known issues.
• Deployment Architectures - Review the current deployment approach and evaluate / propose / expose opportunities for enhancing the deployment model for new and existing solutions. 
• Participate and guide on the non-functional tests planning and execution i.e. performance / load tests, security tests and high availability and fail over testing.

Skills & Experience

• At least 7 years’ experience in Technology within the domains of Software development and solutions architecture.
• At least 7 years of Integration hands on experience using enterprise tools.
• Hands on development experience in service decomposition, solution design and implementation based on microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations and priorities. 
• Must demonstrate good judgment and pragmatic approach to delivering a solution that optimizes architecture activities across company needs, business constraints and technological realities.
• Experience with JSON, XML, XSLT mapping and usage of SOAP/HTTP, REST and JMS/MQ protocols.
• Solid software development experience using Object Oriented Programming languages.
• Deep expertise on cloud technologies and concepts.
• Deep expertise in various relational databases – Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in Architecture principles, System Integration, Technical sizing, High availability aspects, Integration and deployment best practices.
• Integration knowledge of event-based streaming and integration, pub-sub, and request-reply, synchronous-asynchronous patterns.
• Working knowledge of API security - authentication, authorization, policies etc.
• Experience in performance planning and execution of performance tests using formal approaches and tuning the solutions/services for optimal performance. 
• Good working experience with all the tiers of architecture - infrastructure, database, integration, application, UI, network and security.

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• The Data Architect role is tasked with providing leadership and overseeing the following administrative and operational functions within the data management office and group:
• Data Architecture: this function is responsible for providing leadership in all aspects of data architecture in order to drive the capability to identify and develop the proper information models to support business operations and analytics.
• The data architect roles and responsibilities will include: Developing and implementing an overall organizational data architecture strategy that is in line with business requirements, overall data strategy and enterprise IT architecture. The strategy includes data model designs, database development standards, implementation and management of data warehouses and data analytics system.
• Metadata Management: planning and execution of the various data standards of the enterprise. Metadata is defined as the data providing information about one or more aspects of the data; it is used to summarize basic information about data which can make tracking and working with specific data easier. Some examples include: i) means of creation of the data. li) Purpose of the data. lii) Time and date of creation. This role must have the capability to proactively manage the diverse data standards of the enterprise.
• At its core, the role involves supporting the CDC) and other team leaders in implementing the Enterprise Data Management in regards to data architecture and Metadata Strategies, drive strategic performance in order to achieve strategic results that is, Data is seen as a Strategic Asset and creates sustainable stakeholder value

Ideal Job Specifications:
 Academic:

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Finance & Banking MIS, or Information Management, operations management
• Masters or diploma in data management/data science, will be an added advantage

Professional:

• Hands on experience in Database Development and scripting, with expert level skills in writing SQL queries.
• Hands on experience in developing ETL packages using Oracle DI, SQL Server Integration Services, SAP Data Services
• Deep understanding of industry standard formats and protocols (XML/XPath/XQuery and JSON)
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and reporting skills
• A good knowledge of the information requirements and standard reporting within Financial Services industry

Desired work experience:

• Minimum 8 years' experience in IT systems development within a large, digitized organization designing, implementing and managing mission critical systems, with at least 5 of those years within BI development and/or support.